Abstract

manager is an important decision. This is due to its influence upon
risks undergone and profits expected by shareholders. These analyses are used to
solve the problem which is whether the size of the firm, the business risks, the growth
of assets, the profitability and the ownership structure influence the capital strusture
or not?
The population in this research is the go public manufacturing sector in the
Bursa Efek Indonesia for years 2005 until 2007. The sample is defined by cluster
propotional random sampling to get a representative sample on each sector. There
are 33 go public manufacturing companies selected as sample for this research.
There are two variables in this research, the independent variable and dependent
variable. The independent variable comprises firm size, business risk, growth of
assets, and profitability; and for the dependent variable is the capital structure of go
public manufacturing companies in the BEI. This research was analyzed using
multiple regressions.
This research found the empirical results that partially, SIZE influences
positive significant and NPM influences negative significant to the capital structure
of go public manufacturing companies in the Bursa Efek Indonesia. While the result
of partial test for DOL and GROW showed that partially they didn’t influence
significantly to the capital structure. The result for the simultaneous test showed that
there is influence between SIZE, DOL, GROW, and NPM with the capital strusture of
go public manufacturing companies in the Bursa Efek Indonesia. The influence is
0,197 or 19,7%. The other 80.3% influenced by another factors outside the research
or the regression model.

Item Type:

Thesis (Undergraduate)

Additional Information:

Size, business risk, growth of assets, profitability, and capital structure

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Size, business risk, growth of assets, profitability, and capital structure